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Wednesday March 18, 2015 Volume 97 Issue 28The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton

Solo art exhibit opens in campus gallery

VP candidates continue visits to campus

News A&E2 4

Grant to fund ALS patient device

Campus voting kicks off

Softball tames Bulls in doubleheader

Tool would allow people with ALS to communicate

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A group of students, led by a Cal State Fullerton com-puter engineering professor, is working to make commu-nication easier for patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS.

Kiran George, Ph.D., asso-ciate professor of computer engineering, hopes to create an affordable wireless proto-type that will allow people with ALS to communicate and even use social media through thoughts and body signals, he said. The proj-ect is funded by a $100,000 grant from the Disability Communications fund based in Oakland, California.

The device George and his team are developing would cost a fraction of what cur-rent communication systems do—just $200.

The device would take steps toward limiting the cost of living with ALS, which can reach into the six figures over a lifetime.

Costs associated with ALS care have been esti-mated at $63,692 per year, according to a 2013 study by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

“The overarching goal of this project is to design and pilot test a low-cost elec-tronic communication sys-tem that would allow per-sons with ALS to effortlessly access the internet and en-gage in electronic commu-nications,” George said in an e-mail.

Current communica-tions systems are pric-ey and don’t adapt well to patients’ changing condi-tions, George said.

Alec Paquette, a biology major, voted Tuesday, the first day polling booths were open. Voting will close Thursday at 8 p.m. GRAPHIC BY MIKE TRUJILLO / DAILY TITAN AND PHOTO BY FRANKIE NAJOR / FOR THE DAILY TITAN

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Winners will be announced Thursday from at 8 p.m. in the Titan Student Union

The Cal State Fullerton softball team has finally start-ed to find its groove.

The Titans entered Ander-son Family Field on Tuesday’s doubleheader looking to find some consistency against the State University of New York at Buffalo, and find it they did.

The Titans took advantage of the Bulls’ paltry win-loss record to extend their own winning streak to six games in a row, a season best for the Titans. Fullerton started the day with an 8-0 win that ended via the mercy rule, before closing with a more closely-contested 8-4 victory in the second game of their doubleheader.

“We’re on a little roll,” Head

Coach Kelly Ford said. “I think the momentum is very important at this point in the season, taking that with us into conference ... the confi-dence factor is huge.”

Desiree Ybarra was in charge of pitching duties in the day’s first game, bringing with her 13.1 innings of shutout ball from the Easton Tourna-ment. Ybarra once again im-pressed in the circle, pitching a complete-game shutout of the Bulls that ended in only five innings.

Ford opted to change the batting order once again, a tac-tic that continued to pay off af-ter initially being employed at the Easton Tournament.

In the bottom of the sec-ond inning, the Titan bats got hot. Kylie Padilla’s sacrifice bunt moved Melissa Sechrest to second base and Brooke Clemetson to third. Samantha Galarza then hit an RBI single to left field that drove in Clem-etson and gave the Titans the 1-0 lead.

Titans extend win streak to six after sweep of Buffalo

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Freshman shortstop Shianne Brannan fouls off a ball in game two of the doubleheader against the Buffalo Bulls Tuesday at Anderson Family Field. Brannan continued her excellent defense by recording five put outs in the two-game sweep of the Bulls.

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Officer suspected in shooting

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The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for rook-ie probationary offi-cer Henry Solis, who is suspect of a ho-micide, according to the Los Angeles ABC affiliate.

Solis, who was fired by the department Tuesday is under sus-picion of fatally shoot-ing 23-year-old Sa-lome Rodriguez, Jr. in Pomona Friday.

The shooting oc-curred at 3:29 a.m. Solis was off duty and investigators be-lieve the two got into a fistfight before the shooting.

Police found Ro-driguez with gunshot wounds in his lower torso.

Pomona police is-sued a warrant for So-lis’ arrest on Monday.

Solis has been miss-ing since the shooting and has not showed up for work since, ac-cording to the Los An-geles Times.

Members of ISIS kid-napped 20 foreigner Libyan hospital work-ers only to soon re-lease them under the stipulation that they would treat ISIS group members, according to a CNN report.

Ibn Sina Hospital in Sirte was stormed Monday by about 30 gunmen from ISIS. Af-ter releasing the hos-pital workers, who had been trying to leave Sirte’s deterio-rating safety, ISIS sol-diers told them they must remain under penalty of death.

Those at Ibn Sina Hospital believed that ISIS targeted them be-cause the organization has a lack of medical help options.

Two men received one year of informal probation after plead-ing no contest for fail-ing to disperse in a January 2014 protest over the not-guilty verdicts of the police officers charged in the Kelly Thomas murder case.

After being asked to break up a protest by police officers, Juan Zuletariveros, 27, and Adam Alder, 36, al-legedly stood their ground and continued protesting. The two originally submitted not-guilty pleas for their charges before pleading no-contest.

Five other pro-testers are also charged with failure to disperse when or-dered but have plead-ed not guilty. Those individuals have a pre-trial hearings set for April 7.

Four finalists have been chosen for the position of associate vice president for Business and Adminis-trative Services. Two can-didates visited campus earlier this week to deliv-er presentations and get feedback from the cam-pus community, two more will visit Wednesday and Thursday.

The associate vice presi-dent for Business and Ad-ministrative Services over-sees many departments, including Contracts and Procurement, Student Fi-nancial Services and Park-ing and Transportation Services.

Cheryl Ross, who vis-ited campus Monday, has worked in various posi-tions at Columbia Univer-sity since 2004. Currently, Ross is the head of Special Projects for Global Finan-cial Operations.

Until 2014, Ross was vice president for Student Fi-nancial Services at Colum-bia, where she was respon-sible for the disbursement of nearly $400 million of financial aid. She institut-ed a more seamless dis-tribution process and re-solved a budget deficit in

the department, according to her resume.

From 2004 to 2011, Ross was the university control-ler. As controller, Ross was responsible for financial reporting, investment ac-counting, endowment com-pliance and other duties.

Before Columbia, she worked as the director of Internal Audit at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. There, she was responsible for conducting systems au-dits of the Mayo system.

Ross received her mas-ter’s in management and accounting and her bache-lor’s in psychology at Pur-due University. She is a certified public accountant in Illinois.

Tracey L. Richardson, current controller for the Hartnell Community Col-lege District, delivered her presentation for the posi-tion Tuesday.

Richardson has 20 years of higher education ex-perience in financial and business operations, which include process improve-ment, technology initia-tives and cross-division-al collaboration, working with shared government groups and revenue gener-ating operations.

Richardson was the fi-nancial manager for Uni-versity Housing Service at San Jose State where she balanced the budget by es-tablishing zero-based bud-geting that brought the de-partment out of a deficit.

Richardson received a master’s in business admin-istration from Long Beach State, as well as a master’s of accountancy from San Francisco State and holds a bachelor’s in communica-tions and international rela-tions from the USC.

“My passion is process improvement,” Richardson said. “This is something where I can use my talent and skill.”

Richardson elaborated on her philosophy to improve business processes at Cal State Fullerton. Processes should align with the Uni-versity Strategic Plan work flow improvements should be made to create greater efficiency.

“We may do work flow improvement, we think, but if it ultimately doesn’t cre-ate greater efficiency then it’s pretty pointless,” Rich-ardson said. “There has to be a point to it.”

Benjamin Figueroa, di-rector of resource plan-ning and management for Academic Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles, will vis-it CSUF on Wednesday and deliver his presentation at 1:30 p.m. in Pollak Library North room 130.

Mary Wheeler will deliv-er her presentation Thurs-day, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Pollak Library North room 130. Wheel-er is currently the assis-tant vice president for Fi-nance at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Four candidates vie for VP positionCandidates will present Wednesday and Thursday

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Tracey L. Richardson, one of the four candidates for associate vice president for business administrative services presented in Pollak Library Tuesday.

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The Cal State Fullerton dance department will add new audition times to its itin-erary in an effort to address an increase in applicants and simultaneous lack of spots.

In the past, the department has accommodated 100 ap-plicants, but increasing en-rollment is expected to push that number up to nearly 170, said Debra Noble, professor and chair of the CSUF dance department.

“We have applicants from New York and Oregon and Wisconsin,” Noble said. “We have people from all over ap-plying outside of California ... we’re drawing people na-tion-wide,” Noble said.

More student enrollment in an impacted program means competition is heightened,

Noble said, and this means students must have already reached a certain level of training and dance compe-tency upon arrival to the program.

Not all the students who audition will be able to get into the program.

Students must first gain the approval of the dance pro-gram faculty through an au-dition process that require them to perform ballet or contemporary-style dances, which are CSUF’S main fo-cus areas, Noble said.

She added that students must go through a second tier review before they are ac-cepted to the program.

“Even though we have more students wanting to at-tend our program, it’s more difficult to get them in be-cause of impaction,” Noble said.

Noble attributed the large increase in applicants to a strong alumni base that has come from the program. The success of those alum-ni members, she said, has

helped the dance depart-ment get a reputation and be-come a highly recommended program.

“As they go off and do wonderful things, they are influencing other young dancers and telling them that the program is very

good,” Noble said. With applicant numbers in-

creasing, one thing that could change is the small-depart-ment feel.

That feel is something Robert Pulido, a senior dance major, enjoys because it is easy to get to professors on a

personal level, he said.But, at the same time, Pu-

lido said he eagerly antici-pates program growth and its greater implications.

“The volume coming in is great, it shows that our dance program is really unique,” Pulido said.

High enrollment has led dance program to add new auditions

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The CSUF dance program will add more additions to compensate for an overflow of applicants. The program, which normally receives 100 applicants, is expected to see nearly 170.

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Program pivots for applicants

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“Currently available sys-tems, similar to the one being developed at CSUF, cost thousands of dollars,” George said. “Moreover, these systems cannot be customized to the needs of patients as their symptoms worsen—as the disease progresses patients are un-able to use the previously used input.”

The system George and his team are working on would improve on some of those deficiencies.

“The communication system I envision is a wire-less headset with four to five sensors that the pa-tients would wear to op-erate a laptop or tablet that will have a shelf-life of three to four years,” George said.

The system would track biosignals, including thoughts, through EEG signals and facial expres-sions using EMG signals. It would also track movement of the patient’s head using a gyroscope, George said.

The system will let

patients control electronic devices such as laptops and tablets for communications such as email, text, chat and Skype by voluntarily manipulating these biosig-nals, he said.

In accepting the grant, George and his students have one year to develop the system, and will file two progress reports with the Disability Communi-cations Fund, the first of which will be due in June.

Before then, George plans to test a prototype with patients in May.

The thought of learning valuable experience was one that 25-year-old Ful-lerton master’s student, Da-vid Diaz, said he couldn’t pass up.

“(George has) given us an objective toward mak-ing it easy for ALS patients to work toward having the ability and convenience to work on the computer with limited movement,” Diaz said. “He provides us ad-equate tools, software, equipment to help us work toward that experience.

For now, George has five

CSUF students perform-ing a variety of tasks, but that number could increase soon.

“Currently all students working on the project are students from my class-es,” George said. “In sum-mer, several students from the community colleges will also have the oppor-tunity to be involved in the project.”

Yeu Cheng, a sec-ond-year computer engi-neering master’s student, contributes to the technical aspects of the project.

The experience goes be-yond working with the latest tools and gives the group a chance to impact others’ lives, he said.

“We’re really working with very cutting-edge tech-nology and it’s kind of like a field that’s still very new,” Cheng said. “You know, the emergence of robotics mixed with interfacing with the brain and all that, so it’s really exciting to work in the field and to know that what we do can potential-ly have a positive impact on the people with ALS.”

UC Irvine announced a plan to advance free and open education by allow-ing students in any of Cal-ifornia’s three post-sec-ondary education systems to take classes through UCI.

Students from any of the 23 CSU campuses or 112 community colleges will be able to access an open cur-riculum for chemistry, in-cluding lectures and class materials, according to a release on the program.

The program will allow students to access a parallel program to the university’s traditional chemistry cur-riculum, including a year-long general chemistry course, and transitions into organic and physical chem-istry after that, said Larry Cooperman, associate dean for Open Education at the UCI OpenCourseWare.

“Our objective is to pro-vide an informal chemis-try learning community to supplement and support classroom instruction at the undergraduate level,” Cooperman said.

The Open Education Consortium, formerly OpenCourseWare Con-sortium, was launched at UCI in 2006 and provides free and open access to

undergraduate-level learn-ing opportunities, accord-ing to UCI’s website.

The OpenChem program at UCI extends the piece-meal individual courses provided by the Open Edu-cation Consortium to cover

an entire curriculum for a single subject.

The project has already been available to students through other partnerships with California, Cooper-man said.

“We already collaborat-ed with CSU’s Merlot proj-ect and Affordable Learn-ing Solutions to place our OpenChem project in their listings. We realized that in order to make the years of lecture classes offered

useful in the classroom, the lectures needed to be cap-tioned,” he said.

The program will move along the same lines of the traditional courses offered at UCI, he said.

“The OpenChem cur-riculum mirrors the UCI Chemistry Department’s curriculum, with a prepa-ration course, a year-long course in general chemis-try, then organic chemistry and finally physical chem-istry, as well as other spe-cific undergraduate and graduate Chemistry cours-es,” Cooperman said.

Students can use their topical index if they are looking for a specific, brief explanation of a con-cept or an example, or they can follow along with our lectures, supplement-ing their own class work and enhancing their un-derstanding by using the OpenChem courses as a second explanation of a concept they may not have

understood in the lecture hall, he said.

“We are hoping that it will be widely used and that OpenChem will final-ly transition to supporting resources. Currently, the YouTube channel, UCIr-vineOCW receives 60,000 visits per month for our OpenChem courses and is watched for an average of eight minutes per view. We expect double this number by the end of this year,” Cooperman said.

Chemistry won’t be the last subject to get the Open Course treatment, Cooper-man said.

“We believe that the expe-rience that we are having now with OpenChem will be even-tually replicated in other sub-jects,” Cooperman said.

OpenChem program will give students free chemistry classes

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The group of students, led by Associate Computer Engineering Professor Kiran George, Ph.D., are working to create an affordable communication device for patients diagnosed with ALS.

COURTESY OF KIRAN GEORGE

ALS: Device to aid communication

Larry CoopermanAssociate Dean for Open Education at UCI OpenCourseWare

Our objective is to provide an informal chemistry learning community to supplement and support classroom instruction at the undergraduate level.

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Orange County band, Kiev, will be performing live at Becker Amphitheater Wednesday as part of the As-sociated Students, Inc. Pro-ductions Wednesday Concert Series.

Associated Students Con-cert Series coordinator, Do-ris Munoz, found the band through a friend’s recom-mendation and thought they would bring a good vibe to Cal State Fullerton, she said.

“Musically, they are just fantastic,” she said.

Kiev was established as a band in 2009, adding mem-bers one by one. After releas-ing two EPs—Ain’t No Scary Folks In On Around Here in 2010 and Be Gone Dull Cage & Others in 2011—Kiev was named “Best Indie Band” at the 2011 and 2012 Orange County Music Awards.

In 2013, the band re-leased its first full-length al-bum, Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth, with Suspended Sun-rise Recordings.

A track from Be Gone Dull Cage & Others was recently featured on an episode of The Walking Dead.

The band was built very

slowly over the course of few years the band’s vo-calist and guitarist, Robert Brinkerhoff said.

Brinkerhoff met Bran-don Corn, the band’s drum-mer, about 10 years ago. The two played together for a year or two before meeting Andy Stavas, keyboard and saxaphone player, and Der-ek Poulsen, bassist. Poulsen was a composition major at CSUF at the time, Brinker-hoff said.

Kiev plays eclectic-style music that can be best de-scribed as “a mix of some-thing that is like an organ-ic, electronic, experimental, indie sound,” Brinkerhoff said.

The wide range of musical styles incorporated in Kiev’s compositions comes from a wide range of the band’s mu-sical tastes.

“There is so much mu-sic available to us now,” Brinkerhoff said in an email. “We are always into anything creative, dusty or groovy. Lately, we have been listening to new folks

like Unknown Mortal Or-chestra, Arp, Timber Tim-bre, Michael Kiwanuka, Todd Terje, Luke Abbott

among a zillion others.” Brinkerhoff is happy to

perform at CSUF because he saw a number of bands like

At The Drive-In and Jimmy Eat World perform here on campus, he said.

Associated Students will

again be giving out free pizza for students and free tickets for upcoming concerts in the Orange County area.

OC indie band to play the Becker

Exhibit takes viewers to ‘Distant Worlds’

Rising local band Kiev to play their electric indie music at CSUF

SVETLANA GUKINADaily Titan

Local indie band Kiev formed in 2009, and have released two EPs and one full-length album. A track from their EP Be Gone Dull Cage & Others was featured on The Walking Dead. They were named “Best Indie Band” two years in a row by the Orange County Music Awards.

COURTESY OF KIEV

ROBERT BRINKERHOFFVocalist and Guitarist

There is so much music available to us now ... we are always into anything creative, dusty or groovy.

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Spectators were transport-ed into another world Satur-day with the opening recep-tion for Distant Worlds, Dzu Nguyen’s graduate exhibi-tion, which was held in Cal State Fullerton’s Marilyn & Cline Duff Gallery.

Nguyen, an illustration major, had been preparing the works presented in this show since he first became a Titan four years ago.

Each of his digital paint-ings open the door to view-ers’ imaginations, taking them places far away from Southern California.

Overgrown takes on-lookers deep into a murky swamp with towering trees. The atmospheric perspec-tive created gives the illusion that an end to the swamp is nowhere near.

Such an environment was created through Nguyen’s artistic process of beginning each work with abstract ar-eas or lines of color, and let-ting those guide him in the direction of the final work.

“I’m looking at abstract shapes and I’m using my imagination to recognize patterns,” Nguyen said. “When I’m painting some-thing, if that brush stroke looks like a mountain, I just make it a mountain and I see where the story takes me at that point.”

City, one of the largest digital paintings, looks like a scene straight out of a sci-fi film. Viewers are tunneled straight into a warm, futuris-tic cityscape. When looked at closely, blocks of color makeup larger shapes in the painting. This work sold for $500.

Nguyen feels that his cre-ative process gives him a head start when working on a piece and also helps to keep the artistic flow run-ning smoothly. He chooses to dive right in and make those brave first marks, rather than staring at a blank canvas until figuring out what to paint.

“(Feeling stuck), it’s the scariest thing, and so the easiest thing to do is just put a mark on the page,” Nguy-en said. “There’s no asso-ciation as to whether it’s a good mark or bad mark, you just put something on the page and then you evaluate it.”

Juan Ramirez, a senior majoring in illustration, drawing and painting, felt as though Nguyen’s marks on the canvases took him to many distant worlds.

“It’s all about environ-ments and I thought it was very interesting just (for) somebody to be able to come up with that stuff,” Ramirez said. “(Nguyen has) a really good imag-ination and that’s real-ly something that’s use-ful in art—having a good imagination.”

Distant Worlds will be running through Thursday, from noon to 4 pm.

Student displays the results of his helpful artistic process

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Illustration major Dzu Nguyen opened his solo exhibit Distant Worlds on Saturday in Cal State Fullerton’s Marilyn & Cline Duff Gallery. The exhibit is a collection of Nguyen’s favorite digital paintings he has been working on over the past four years.

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The paintings featured in Distant Worlds are all products of Dzu Nguyen’s artistic process of free expression. When painting he begins by making random shapes and lines and then creates a story from what he sees on the canvas.

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ASIP Concert: Kiev

• Becker Amphitheater• Wednesday Noon

• Free

Distant Worlds

• Marilyn & Cline Duff Gallery• Wednesday-Thursday Noon

• Free

The Comedy of Errors

• Young Theatre• Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday 2 p.m.• $11, $10 with Titan discount

Really Really

• Arena Theatre• Thursday-Saturday 8 p.m.• $10, $5 with Titan discount

ASIP Films: Into The Woods

• TSU Titan Theater• Thursday 4 p.m., 7 p.m. and 10p.m.

• Free

Trampled By Turtles

• Orange County Observatory• Friday 9 p.m.

• $25

David Chui

• Orange County Observatory• Saturday 6:30 p.m.

• $20

David Chui

• Orange County Observatory• Saturday 8 p.m.

• $12

Moon Duo

• Orange County Observatory• Sunday 8 p.m.

• $15

Plans This Week?

The DJs set up and dance floors were laid out by the Cal State Fullerton Salsa Club for a night of cultural and edu-cational experiences in the fourth annual CSUF Salsa Showcase on Saturday.

For the first hour of the event, guests entered the Ti-tan Student Union Pavilion with the choice of either go-ing to the salsa room with DJ Rumbero, or the bacha-ta room with DJ Daniel “D” Morquecho. Each room had an instructor giving dance workshops.

Kazumi DeVries, the in-structor in the salsa room, also teaches the competitive salsa team at CSUF.

Each semester, the club hosts two events where they bring a cultural experience to the local community with the help of the Association for InterCultural Awareness, DeVries said.

In her classes, DeVries first helps her students become dancers by teaching them the basics, and then later teach-ing them choreography, she said.

She sometimes starts with the students who have no idea what salsa is, and helps them become just like the students performing in the showcase, and it can sometimes be ac-complished in one semester, DeVries said.

Devries teaches students about the origins of salsa and its different branches and history, which is also what the club set out to showcase, DeVries said.

The event also offered dif-ferent performances by salsa groups and bachata groups, which is a Dominican dance similar to salsa. The event was free for CSUF students so they could see the profes-sional side of dancing as well as create a community within the campus, DeVries said.

“The fact that it’s open to the public means we can bring our community a little

bit closer together so we can have people from the com-munity come and learn,” Sal-sa Club President Jazmine De La Cruz said.

The performers of the night included dance teams from Los Angeles, San Di-ego and Orange County. Each team displayed their unique take on salsa and bachata music, along with a solo performance by the instructor in the bachata room, Violeta Anderson.

“This is a night where we actually get to show people about Latin dancing,” Cruz said. “We have contracted

special performers and the whole educational purpose is to make sure that peo-ple are aware of how many hours you have to put in to look really good, the out-fit, the type of music and just overall the Latin cul-ture and different types of dances.”

Following the performanc-es from the visiting dance teams, the dance floors were once again open to the CSUF students and guests. Many partnered up to practice what they had learned that night as the DJs selected different sal-sa and bachata tunes.

Titans treated to dance workshops and performances

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CSUF Salsa Club shakes things up in TSU Pavilion

Romance film gets exposure

The Cal State Fullerton Salsa Club hosted their fourth annual CSUF Salsa Showcase Saturday in the Titan Student Union Pavillion. For the first part of the event, guests were given salsa and bachata dance workshops from professional dancers.

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A Lesson of Love, an in-dependent film produced and directed by Michael McAlex-ander, an associate professor of communications, has been selected to screen at the 48th Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film & Video Festival.

This will be the second film festival that the film has been selected for. It was pre-viously screened at the Teme-cula Valley Film and Music Festival in August 2014.

The prestigious World-Fest-Houston International

Film & Video Festival is one of the largest and oldest film and video competitions in the world.

WorldFest was founded in 1961 as Cinema Arts, an in-ternational film society, and became the third competi-tive international film festival in North America. The festi-val is known for discovering highly acclaimed directors including George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

“A man of reason, a wom-an of faith, a chance for love,” the film’s tag line reads. A Lesson of Love, is the sto-ry of an athiest professor from Los Angeles recruited to teach at a small-town col-lege and falls in love with a local woman who is deeply religious.

Set in the Appalachian Mountains, they both must

overcome their differences in order to make their relation-ship work.

The film also explores the deep-rooted questions that surface during the couple’s journey of love in order to reconcile their philosophical differences.

“Can love exist without God?” McAlexander said. “Does he, this man, need to have God in his life to find love?”

The inspiration for the dra-ma-filled movie was loosely drawn from McAlexander’s past relationship, he said.

“It hits core. Reason versus faith, How does that affect us in our relationships?” McAl-exander said. “It’s not just a philosophical question ... you get to that point where the person that is the religious person is always going to ask,

‘well I need you to believe like I believe, because if you don’t then we are not going to be together in eternity.’”

The film is an example of some of the many contro-versial questions that many can relate to at some point in life.

For the past year, McAlex-ander has been entering his film into several film festivals in hopes of having his film be discovered.

“I’m looking for some-one to watch my movie and go, ‘wow we want to take the movie and release it to a thousand theaters across the country,’” McAlexander said.

A Lesson of Love will be screened for the first time at CSUF during Communica-tions Week at the Titan The-ater on April 21 at 8 p.m.

CSUF professor’s film gets selected for prestigious festival

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Hip hop still provides social critique

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Hip hop is not only a type of music, but a culture that has gone through many transformations, while still sticking to its roots.

Within every hip hop era, hip hop artists speak about social and political issues.

Some may argue that hip hop has become meaning-less today, filled with con-sumerism and stereotypes, but that’s not true.

Hip hop remains one of the most diverse and mean-ingful genres of music today.

Throughout the decades, hip hop has continuously tackled some of the tougher issues in life.

The messages differ from song to song, but over-all, they’ve stayed consis-tent in meaningful content throughout the years.

In the 1970s, artists like Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and the Sugar-hill Gang were the voices of hip hop.

One of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s most famous songs, The Message speaks about liv-ing an inner city life around

drugs and poverty. The song is also listed

as number one in Rolling Stone’s list of the “50 Great-est Hip Hop Songs of All Time.”

The 1980s brought Run D.M.C, Public Enemy, N.W.A, Eric B. & Rakim, and so many others.

Public Enemy’s hit Fight the Power sent a message of empowering the black community. Run D.M.C.’s My Adidas served as a platform for the now well-known hip hop style of sneakers and tracksuits.

Another popular hip hop group during the later part of that era, 2 Live Crew, included sexual themes in their music, pushing the boundaries of commercial music content.

1980s hip hop covered many grounds, from light and fun to serious and impactful.

In the ‘90s, we had rap-pers like Tupac, Dr. Dre, Notorious B.I.G., Nas and Jay Z, to name a few.

These rappers all released songs that talked about par-tying, yet tackled serious issues like politics, racism and classism.

The same community is-sues that were discussed in the ‘70s and ‘80s were also relevant in the ‘90s, such as in Tupac’s Changes and Jay Z’s Hard Knock Life.

Flash forward to to-day, rappers like Kendrick

Lamar, J. Cole, and others deliver the same message of black empowerment and so-cio-economic issues.

Hip hop is a language on its own.

Since the beginning, hip hop has spoken about neighborhood struggles within the black commu-nity, gangs, drugs, police brutality; all topics that

are still discussed in music today.

The messages are still there and present in hip hop.

Hip hop isn’t just meant to appeal to one type of issue, it speaks of the highs and lows in life, and has many impactful messages.

“Hip hop music invites

questions and debates about all of these issues–about commercialism, about a message, whether or not the music has substance and social commentary, gender, race–all these real-ly controversial issues that are part of American histo-ry are reflected in the mu-sic,” said Matt Thomas, a music history professor at

Cal State Fullerton. Regarding the notion

that hip hop today is filled with consumerism Thomas said, “There’s no simple, I think, answer in terms of is hip hop, does it have a message or is it all com-mercial? It’s both. Popular music by its nature has al-ways been a commercial product.”

It’s common to be at the front line of up-and-com-ing trends in Southern California.

Though it was thought to be just a fad, the vegan and vegetarian movement has proven to have made a last-ing impact on culture.

Aside from getting into the animal rights debate, this lifestyle choice has been shown to improve one’s appearance and over-all health.

Those on the fence about trying out this lifestyle should definitely consider it.

There are so many veg-an and vegetarian options available.

Outside of adopting

vegan or vegetarian beliefs due to religion, this way of eating has only been wide-ly popular in the last 20 years.

Within the past 10 years, vegan and vegetarian op-tions seem to appear on al-most every menu, and the plant-based eateries have been popping up all around

Southern California. Yet, there is a lack of veg-

an and vegetarian options in less urbanized areas throughout the country.

Why does this plant-based culture seem to be confined to highly populat-ed cities?

The influence of people’s surrounding society has a lot to do with it.

We are products of our environment. A person from a city has a whole different set of values than someone from the rural parts of the United States.

The same goes for busi-nesses and food trends–what is popular in the Southern California bub-ble is probably not going to be the same in say, Hugo, Oklahoma.

Another thing to take into consideration is how populated California is compared to other states.

It is so much easier to get to a market with an array of fresh produce than travel-ing several miles in Okla-homa to a store, only to find a select few options.

Public transportation is a huge factor in a successful economy of an urbanized area and that affects trends, including food culture.

A vegan or vegetarian restaurant would not last in

a less urbanized area of the country due to the need for an array of fresh produce

daily. The overhead would not be worth the invest-ment to put a plant-based

eatery in a rural small town, unless the demand was there.

Vegetarian eateries remain a rising trend that’s here to stay

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Hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar is one of many artists today who still uses hip hop as a platform for important social commentary and critique. Hip hop today still addresses tough subjects like racism, classism and politics, just like hip hop trailblazers of the past.

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Those on the fence about this lifestyle should definitely consider it. There are so many vegan and vegetarian options available.

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Galarza scored a run of her own thanks to an RBI double down the left-field line from Missy Taukeiaho that also drove in Sechrest, putting the Titans ahead 3-0. Three more runs in the inning gave Fullerton a nice cushion for the remainder of the game.

In the top of the fourth inning, Ybarra produced her second of two strike-outs in the game, allowing no breathing room for the Bulls.

The Titans were in the driver’s seat in the bottom of the fifth, as Buffalo failed to score at the top of the inning. Courtney Rodriguez singled to center, allowing Brannan to score and make it a 7-0 ballgame. A fielding error allowed Taukeiaho to cross home from third and pro-duce the final 8-0 scoreline.

After the game, Ford was quick to rain praises on Yba-rra, who has now allowed zero runs in 20.2 innings pitched.

“She’s been the catalyst in this. She has just taken us on her back,” Ford said.

The second game was too close for comfort despite the final 8-4 scoreline.

Washington got the start in

the circle, but she struggled to replicate her Easton Tour-nament form.

The Titans started as the better team, taking the ear-ly 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Buffalo re-covered quickly, though, lev-eling things in the top of the second, courtesy of an RBI single from Danielle Lallos that drove in teammate Hay-ley Barrow.

The Titans recovered the lead in the bottom of the third inning, before rallying in the fourth.

The bottom of the fourth saw Taukeiaho hit a sacrifice fly that allowed Galarza to cross home and make it 3-1 in Fullerton’s favor. Rodri-guez then hit a single to cen-ter field that allowed Saman-tha Vandiver and Delynn Rippy to score and extend the lead to 5-1.

Any thoughts of anoth-er easy victory were quick-ly quelled, as the Bulls took advantage of a struggling Washington to score three runs in the top of the fifth and make it a 5-4 game.

Before any more damage could be done, Ford reintro-duced Ybarra to close out the top of the inning. Ybar-ra went on to quell the Bulls’ bats, but despite the good

performance, Ybarra didn’t feel like she returned to her best.

“I don’t feel like I’ve found my groove, but when I’m on the mound, I don’t really think about how many runs I’ve given up. It’s more, ‘Let me just help my team and put us in the best position we can to get the win,’” Ybarra said.

The Titans scored three more runs and made it an 8-4 game in the bottom of the fifth, thanks to Taukeiaho’s eighth homer of the season.

“It just felt good,” Taukei-aho said. “I’ve been strug-gling with my hitting lately ... I’ve been a little anxious, a little passive. So I think I’m finally at the middle ground now where I’m back to normal.”

And this may just be the new normal for the Titans. Six wins in a row have in-stilled confidence in a team that only a week-and-a-half ago seemed full of doubt and frustration. The Titans are out of the “valley,” as Ford put it.

“We’re in a really good place heading into confer-ence, so I’m excited about it,” Ford said. “They’re working hard and I can’t ask for more.”

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Softball: CSUF sweeps Buffalo

The Cal State Fullerton women’s tennis team will look to right the ship when it returns home for a pair of non-conference matches against Colorado State and Wyoming.

The Titans (7-9 overall, 0-5 Big West) dropped both their contests in Honolulu last weekend, suffering de-feats to Southern Methodist University and Hawaii.

However, the Titans are back to the friendly confines of the Titan Tennis Courts, where they hold a 7-3 re-cord. Fullerton will look to take advantage of a Colora-do State team that is in the midst of a six-game road trip.

The Rams (4-6 overall, 0-1 Mountain West) will be coming in with a two-game winning streak including

a sweep of Vanguard on Tuesday.

The early doubles point will be crucial to set the tone of the match. The No. 1 pairing of sophomore Ca-mille De Leon and redshirt senior Megan Sandford have amassed a 9-6 record in the top spot.

The Rams will counter with their top duo of Natalie Heffron and Adriana Woja-kowska, who are 5-3 on the season.

CSUF’s No. 1 singles play-er, Alexis Valenzuela (7-3), has been battling a nagging back injury all season long and has had to sit out occa-sionally in singles matches. If healthy, the sophomore will likely face Heffron, who holds a 3-5 record in the No. 1 slot for the Rams.

Heffron has also missed time recently due to an ill-ness, but returned for the sweep over Vanguard.

De Leon will likely step onto the court as the No. 2, a spot where she holds a 6-4 record.

Senior Kalika Slevcove, who plays in the No. 6 slot,

will look to bust out of her five-game losing streak and gain a point from the bottom of the lineup.

The Titans will have a day off before hosting the Wyoming Cowgirls (6-5 overall).

The Cowgirls enter with momentum, winning three of their past four matches. Wyoming has had mixed re-sults away from home, going 2-2 in their road contests.

The Cowgirls are lead by redshirt freshman Magdale-na Stencel, who has gone 5-3 in the top singles spot.

Stencel pairs with senior Jessica Parizher for the No. 1 doubles slot, and the duo holds an even 3-3 record on the season.

First serve at the Titan Tennis Courts is sched-uled for 1:30 p.m. both Wednesday against the Rams and Friday against the Cowgirls.

Both Colorado State and Wyoming will prove good non-conference tests for the Titans before they finish their schedule out against three Big West foes.

The Titans will host Colorado State and Wyoming this week

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Sophomore Camille De Leon powers a backhanded shot at her opponent. De Leon is 6-4 in the No. 2 spot of the singles lineup and 9-6 in the No. 1 doubles slot with partner Megan Sandford.

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Cal State Fullerton base-ball looks to bounce back into the win column Wednes-day night when they take on the Roadrunners of Cal State Bakersfield.

The Titans are currently stuck in a midseason rut fol-lowing a three-game sweep at the hands of the Indiana Hoo-siers. The sweep knocked the Titans out of the national rankings and brought their re-cord to a mediocre 9-9.

The Roadrunners, howev-er, are on an upward trend, having won seven of their last 10 games and are looking to ride the momentum through a nine-game road stretch. The two teams last faced each oth-er in 2013, when the Titans cruised to an 8-2 victory.

In Wednesday’s match-up, the Titans will need to

get back to the basics af-ter surrendering 10 errors during their four-game los-ing streak—nearly as many as they’ve committed in all previous games this season combined.

Backing this effort will be the Johnny Bench Award nominee, catcher A.J. Ken-nedy who has committed just one error this season for the Titans. Behind the plate, Kennedy has managed to sti-fle opponents’ running game by throwing out 50 percent of potential base stealers.

In addition to his excellent fielding, he has managed a .224 batting average and has driven in eight runs.

On paper, Bakersfield seems to have the edge of-fensively. The Roadrunners come into the matchup with five players batting over .300 and 114 runs scored as a team. The Titans will go into the game producing a batting average of .246 on the season and managing only 84 runs on the season.

Sophomores Joey Sanchez and David Metzgar lead the

Roadrunners at the plate with averages of .381 and .333, and have scored a combined 31 runs.

The Titans will look to counter at the plate with their own pair of sophomore in-fielders, Jake Jefferies and Josh Estill. The duo lead the team in hits this season and look to regain the form that led them to earn Big West Player of the Week honors.

On the mound for the Roadrunners will be right-hander James Barragan. Barragan boasts an impres-sive 1.71 earned run aver-age through 21 innings this season, but has managed to notch only one win in three starts.

Fullerton will be anchored by a pitching staff that cur-rently sports a 3.79 earned run average. However, they have continued to make life difficult for opposing batters, as they currently rank No. 4 in the nation with a 4.43 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

First pitch for Wednesday’s game is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Goodwin Field.

Fullerton to host Cal State Bakersfield in a midweek clash

NEIL CASTROFor The Daily Titan

Junior catcher A.J. Kennedy is a nominee for the Johnny Bench Award because of his stellar defensive play. Kennedy has committed just one error and thrown out 50 percent of base runners.

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